Extreme, prolonged cold weather may affect Alberta honeybee population

Despite the best efforts of beekeepers to keep honeybees warm, prolonged freezing temperatures like what Alberta has experienced in February can make it harder for the bees to survive the winter.
Honeybees are not native to Alberta, having been brought over by European settlers and then spread across North America. Therefore, they need a little bit of extra help to survive our “normal” cold winters, said Ron Miksha, a beekeeper based in Calgary.
This means one would be hard-pressed t